Seeking to reduce his divorce settlement in a state that still attributes fault between spouses in divorces, a New York lawyer tried to get “liberal discovery” concerning his claim that…
A lawyer representing Hulk Hogan’s wife in a divorce managed to snare an autograph from the pro wrestler before a court hearing, but the truce quickly ended in a press…
President Obama faces a difficult decision as he weighs how to respond to judicial orders requiring the federal government to pay insurance benefits to the same-sex spouses of two lawyers.
Dan Savage is probably best known to many as the openly gay author of explicit newspaper sex-advice columns (often written, he says, on the desk he purchased from the estate…
A New York judge has ruled that trustees of a fund established under the will of hotel heiress Leona Helmsley have sole discretion to determine how much of her multibillion-dollar…
An unemployed woman who along with her own mother, is already raising six children in a three-bedroom Whittier, Calif., home in pre-foreclosure, is worried that she may not be allowed…
Police have made no arrests and named no suspects in the case of a Louisiana criminal defense lawyer found dead in her Baton Rouge law office on Friday as she…
Following a seven-hour standoff, a suspect who allegedly initially held an attorney and office staff hostage, after he entered a Hutchinson, Kan., law office armed with a .25-caliber handgun, was…
Miami Heat guard Dwyane Wade has filed a libel suit against his estranged wife and her lawyers for allegations in a divorce filing that he had an affair and contracted…
In the United States, it is common for adults to adopt children who aren’t their own biological offspring and give them their name, not infrequently traveling abroad to do so.
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